Job Summary
The Human Resources Benefits Administrator is responsible for providing support for Benefits and Retirement Plan Administration.
Essential Functions
- Ensure compliance with applicable government regulations
- Ensure timeliness and accuracy of required reporting and fees
- Resolve compliance related issues
- Ensure completion of required documentation and maintain current records with total document / data integrity
- Verify integrity of data in HRIS via audit reports
- Document and maintain administrative procedures for benefits processes
- Recommend improvements to procedures, and service and delivery enhancements
- Ensures benefit changes are processed in accordance with Company Plan Document(s) and in accordance with ERISA
- Audit all benefit deductions and reconcile benefit invoices for all plans
- Manage relationships with external benefits brokers and carriers
- Maintain contact with benefit companies and ensuring benefits are processed accurately
- Educate employees on benefit offerings
- Oversee the open enrollment process
- Oversee the completion of daily benefits processing including enrollments, COBRA, terminations, changes, beneficiaries, and accident and death claims
- Oversee Northwest's Wellness Program
- Design, recommend and implement new benefits program
- Prepare and send correspondence
- Provide required notifications
- Assist with processing payroll, Open Enrollment and the Benefits Fair
- Process billing and payments
- Reconcile bills and accounts with payroll entries
- Monitor file feeds for Benefit Enrollments and Terminations
- Authorize distributions and the retirement distributions for the 401(k) and Pension Plan
- Provide Pension Plan estimates via third party vendor
- Identify and resolve employee benefits and related issues
- Demonstrate ability to work well within multiple levels of the company and a diverse population of internal customers
- Manage personal workload / workflow
- Perform data entry
- Minimize departmental non payroll costs
- Maximize technology tools available
- Ensure compliance with Northwest's policies and procedures, and Federal / State regulations
- Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency
- Work as part of a team
- Work with on-site equipment
Qualifications, Experience + Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 2-5 years of Employee Benefits experience preferred
- Able to demonstrate discretion with confidential information
- Detail oriented
8 days ago